On Monday, the National Archives will release a mother lode of previously unavailable data from the 1940 census. The mass of retro information is like a time capsule, dug up from yesterday, that ...

Millions of Americans began a personal odyssey this morning, logging on wherever they were to begin searching the original 1940 census records this morning promptly at 9 a.m. eastern time, the ...

With the help of a national volunteer project involving more than 100,000 people, 1940 census records for California and more than two dozen other states have now been indexed by name and can be ...